Picks Quotes

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something... a little fan is always a little bit nice.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.

We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.

When I first saw Spiderman, I had no idea who he was. I later read in an article that he doesn't work much because he only picks projects he believes in.

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.

They wanna see me pick back up, well where'd I leave it at?

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

You are bound to pick up influences.

I am the student who picks his nose, so come over here and take off your clothes.

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me

I used to pick Priuses out of the grill of my Hummer.

A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

When life hands me lemons I hand them back and pick something else.

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.